Tag: gather essentials writing
member name: Greg Schiller
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April 21, 2008 06:58 AM EDT --
I have yet to visit the eHarmony website, but I am curious. Can anyone tell me if the following items appear on their compatibility questionnaire?
- Which is louder: a pile driver or your snoring? . . .
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May 19, 2008 02:08 PM EDT --
After four hours of touring the flat expanses of Eastern North Dakota, I told my buddy I'd seen empty parking lots with more scenery.
At least parking lots have interesting stuff like white . . .
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July 21, 2008 02:08 PM EDT --
Sorry, I am late and lean with today's update. I just got off a conference call with Gather Central, where I had a sneak peek at the new format you will see tomorrow. I . . .
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May 13, 2008 10:09 AM EDT --
I don't believe in "Global Warming".
No, not at all.
I've read some interesting studies about carbon forcing and others that suggest the whole thing is overblown, but at least . . .
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April 28, 2008 08:24 AM EDT --
There was a time when almost everyone in Minnesota lived in a tent. The equipment in those days was pretty basic stuff: buffalo hide shelter, wicker backpacks, wooden utensils and maybe a clay vessel . . .
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May 05, 2008 06:59 AM EDT --
I remember my son's coach ticking his way through the roll-call before the soccer games: "Joshua, Jeremiah, Jason, Joshua, Joshua, Joshua".
You get the idea.
To . . .
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April 01, 2009 10:01 AM EDT --
Could there be an entry in the White House speech-writing stylebook that reads, "A paragraph anchored by an inference to "Global Warming" can state anything and still be credible with . . .
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March 17, 2008 10:53 AM EDT --
Bud asked Irene, "If gambling is so fun, how come no one here is smiling?"
She didn't have an answer for that, neither did she have an excuse for dragging him into Ceasar's Palace. . . .
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March 24, 2008 08:13 AM EDT --
In January of 1976, Jimmy Carter smiled his way toward the presidency, I worked third shift in a steel foundry, a communist army occupied Saigon and the coldest winter in decades gripped the Twin Cities. . . .
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April 14, 2008 07:17 AM EDT --
I have been told by experts in such matters that on a golf course I am a clear and present danger to all living things as well as any inanimate object within the range of half a mile.
Much of this . . .
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May 12, 2008 06:54 AM EDT --
My ex-wife waged endless war over the mess in our kid's bedrooms.
She was a master of command and control who viewed every tiff over cleaning as the final battle of Armageddon. . . .
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June 30, 2008 06:23 AM EDT --
Yesterday, I broke new ground for workers rights.
It occurred near the coffee machine where I did a little dance with a new employee. I was so preoccupied with the "KNOW YOUR RIGHTS" postings . . .
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July 14, 2008 01:05 AM EDT --
This afternoon, the missus and I endured an usually long line at the coffee shop.
Our cashier, a fresh young man with crisp tattoos and silver piercings, pecked warily at the register. He seemed skittish . . .
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June 09, 2008 07:36 AM EDT --
Last weekend, summer stopped by for a short visit.
I planned to greet it on the patio with a book and a beer but my wife, a zealous crusader against relaxation, insisted we go to Grand Old Days, . . .
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August 25, 2008 12:06 AM EDT --
I'm on the outs with my cousin Dave.
I fed his steak to the coyote who haunts the woods where our family holds it summer barbecues. Now Dave is mad at me. He says dieting has turned . . .
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September 01, 2008 12:07 AM EDT --
I love me wife. She is my partner. She is my best friend. I rely on her for advice, support and solace, but there are times when I don't like her that much.
This may seem a paradox, but . . .
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September 22, 2008 12:06 AM EDT --
Obama wants change. McCain wants change. Everyone wants change but me.
It is not so much that I am stuck in the what-is as I am deeply suspicion of the angst that drives - what-if.
The truth is . . .
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October 13, 2008 12:06 AM EDT --
My first love was my first car.
Oh, I've had crushes before but never anything close to love -- but that car, that was love.
She wasn't much to look at, just a snot-green . . .
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November 03, 2008 12:06 AM EST --
Last Thursday, I wasted much of the day in quiet desperation.
I started out small, moping over the sinister new howl in my transmission and worked my way up through the hierarchy of daily worries. . . .
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May 15, 2008 05:00 PM EDT --
As oil heads for $200 a barrel, people want to know what our lawmakers are going to do about it.
There really isn't much they can do because most oil . . .
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